When Foster withdrew as chief sponsor, another Democrat who had signed on to the measure, Sen. Suzanne Williams of Aurora, took over. Williams today asked the Senate State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee to kill the measure.

“There seems to be quite a bit of misunderstanding about this bill,” she told the committee.

Afterward, Williams said school districts mistakenly believed the bill would impact their funding, which wasn’t the case.

“There was too much opposition, uninformed opposition,” she said. “There’s a a lot of new people to educate about this process.”

As amended by the House, the bill provided a mechanism [5]to divert an increment of state sales tax revenue to fund a portion of state transportation projects. It involves tax increment financing, and had been sought by several cities.

The bill was sponsored in the House by Rep. Don Beezley, R-Broomfield. It passed the House 33-30 last month with several Democrats who had signed on as House sponsors asking their names be removed from the measure.